The Hobart Hurricanes have guaranteed themselves a home semi-final after a thrilling seven-wicket win over the Melbourne Renegades in the Twenty20 Big Bash.
Owais Shah needed a single off the last ball to secure victory for Hobart and was handed it on a platter as Shahid Afridi inexplicably bowled a wide.
Jonathan Wells' 72 combined with Englishman Shah's crucial 49 off 31 balls edged the Hurricanes past the Renegades' total of 173 with a ball to spare in Hobart.
The Renegades were guilty of squandering Aaron Finch and Brad Hodge's 126-run opening stand and would have expected to make closer to 200 after the fast start.
They desperately needed a win to keep their finals hopes alive and Finch and Hodge were unstoppable early after the Renegades elected to bat first.
The pair hardly missed a bad ball as they carved the Hurricane's bowling attack.
However, their auspicious start, an opening stand of 126 runs off 13.3 overs, was somewhat wasted by the middle order who failed to capitalise, to post a moderate 4-173.
Jason Krejza, who was belted by Finch for three consecutive sixes in the eighth over, responded with three timely wickets for 39 runs to halt the Renegades' innings.
In front of their home crowd, Hobart started the chase steadily with 33 runs from the first six overs as opposed to Melbourne's 58.
Mark Cosgrove's comical dismissal for just two runs hurt the Hurricanes. He backed away from a poor leg side delivery from Dirk Nannes but his ill-timed block edged back onto his stumps.
That stilted their progress but Jonathan Wells and Travis Birt started to clear the rope and eat away at the target.
Birt smashed three sixes before he was trapped lbw by Pakistan spinner Afridi for 25.
Wells proved the mainstay of the innings with seven fours and a six in his impressive innings.
After electing to bat, the Renegades strode to 0-67 in the eighth over before Finch blasted three consecutive mammoth sixes off Krejza.
He soon brought up his half century off just 28 balls including 23 off five during a devastating purple patch.
Such was his destruction with the bat, Finch eventually saw it break in two when he attempted to loft the ball to sweeper cover in the 14th over.
As if distracted by the drama, Hodge fell the next ball for 63 with Michael Hogan taking the catch at long off.
Despite piling on 126 without loss in under 14 overs, Hodge's wicket seemed to put the skids on Melbourne's innings with Finch the next to go for 67.
Hogan took the catch off the bowling of Ben Laughlin before Krejza claimed his second wicket, with Nathan Reardon dismissed for 17.
Hogan completed a trio of catches and Krejza picked up his third wicket with Andrew McDonald's scalp before Shahid Afridi did some late damage with 18 runs, including a six of the last ball of the innings.